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“dieter eitz”

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  • The Way of Coffee

    From the Cup Back to the Source — and All the Way Forward Again

    by Dieter Eitz ...
    "Twelve gates, and at every one somebody decides." A journalist follows the cup that stands on his kitchen counter every morning: into a forest in Kaffa, onto a slope beneath shade trees, into a fermentation tank, onto a drying bed, into a container, a roastery — and back again to his kitchen. What he learns on the way is not how to make coffee. It is how little of it depends on him. Botany, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Barista Course

    From push-button to craft – the five M's to your own espresso

    by Dieter Eitz ...
    You have a good espresso machine – now get the best out of it. The Barista Course takes you step by step from the first mindful sip to your own rosetta, without jargon and without expensive detours. The common thread is the five M's: blend, dose, grind, machine and the person behind it. Ten chapters explain what really happens in the cup – why the same coffee tastes different on two days, how a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Coffee Journey

    A Historical Novel

    by Dieter Eitz ...
    Neuss on the Rhine, 1583. The cities of the north do not yet know coffee. Cornelius von Rheydt, a patrician son with too much longing and too little patience, sets out south with his Neapolitan companion Giacomo Fontana, to where a black, forbidden bean is brewed into a wakeful, singing drink. In the alleys of Mokka he finds more than he sought: the secret of coffee and his love for Zaida. A ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Omaneo

    A Novel

    by Dieter Eitz ...
    Neuss, today. At seventy, Dieter Winter stakes everything he has left on an honest espresso machine from China and names his little brand after a soft, singing word he takes for a greeting to his mother: omaneo. Neuss, 1954. A young man from Naples brings an espresso machine and color into a grey café on the market square. In his song he calls Hanna, the innkeeper's daughter, omaneo and vanishes ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The omaneo Saga

    500 Years of Coffee

    by Dieter Eitz ...
    Five hundred years, three families, one bean. In 1583 a merchant's son from Neuss sets out for Arabia to fetch the real thing, and brings back more than he sought. In 1954 a Neapolitan carries the craft to the same grey river, and a word he takes for his own invention. In 2032 it becomes a brand that is sold. The three novels The Coffee Journey, Omaneo and The Cold Cup, for the first time as one ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cold Cup

    A Crime Novel

    by Dieter Eitz ...
    Neuss, 2032 to 2040. In his retirement, the Neuss merchant Dieter Winter stakes everything on an honest espresso machine and the small brand omaneo. But sales pressure, investors, and his own impatience drive him to sell what he built. The brand is ruined, the name becomes a commodity, the coffee grows cold. A quiet, elegiac crime novel about greed, betrayal, and whether the real thing survives ... Read more

    $8.99 USD